Spring Break gives us all time to get out into the garden or go on hikes. Excellent time to practice gps skills in either setting.
Take time to visit a garden - or start one in a windowsill container or in your yard!
Bring beauty and goodness into the world with a garden ...
As we prepare the Camp garden setting up for bean TeePee's has been important. There is a special unit on
Bean TeePees in the Global-Garden Expedition this week at http://www.rain.org/global-garden/teepee-garden.html.
We'll upload some photographs as the week goes on and let everyone see how our building goes. Be sure to
send over photos of your garden preparations.
All DIGs featured last week will continue this week so jump on in if in session this week.
THIS MONTH'S CAMPWIDE DIG - AMAZING WOMEN of the WEST ! has one more week online. This DIG offers your students a chance to participate in Women's History Month where they will learn about writers, artists and explorers of the West. We also encourage teachers and students to post a report on an Amazing Woman from their own Family! Encourage Literacy through Family History!
TEACHER RETREAT - Our Happy Campers are invited to attend a fun Teachers' Retreat on APRIL 27th at Descanso Gardens in La Canada near Pasadena. This retreat will help you locate funding to continue the program next year and prepare you to let other teachers in your district know about the program to encourage a district initiative. Lunch is provided, you can see the new Camp Internet virtual tour and join a strategy session, and then we step out into the beautiful gardens for a guided tour. Families can enjoy the gardens while teachers are at the retreat and all can join in the guided tour 2-4pm. Bring your GPS! RSVP PLEASE by April 19th and let us know if you need a vegetarian lunch.
Are You Ready to DIG the Internet ?
Teachers - we are now officially in the time frame where we feature YOUR Internet Digs. There is no other program on the Internet that lets teachers create these easy, non-HTML, learning quests so please join in and take pride in presenting your OWN Dig to your class and community. Six - twelve research questions are really all it takes to build a DIG !
Please prepare your custom Internet Dig, on a topic of your choice, by following the easy steps in the online training workshops located at http://chat.rain.org/cgi-bin/nph-teacherworkshop and when you have a Dig ready, let us know the week in March or April you would like to have it featured. The rooms we will set aside will be in the Field Reports area as we will still have the current Digs running in the Dig Section. Send reservation requests to camp@campinternet.net.
For Students This Week
Exciting Learning Adventures continue this week -
Islands explores the history of each Channel Island since transfer to American ownership - Who settled these remote and rocky lands ? How did they survive? http://www.rain.org/campinternet/channelhistory/expedition3/Adopt an ISland and have students prepare reports we can post online.
Backcountry steps to the end of the 19th century to meet the daring explorers and artists / writers who were the first to venture into the California Backcountry Sierra Nevada on foot and then widely exhibit or publish their work. From John Muir to Thomas Moran, from the formation of the Sierra Club to Albert Bierstadt - these explorers were the first to take photographs, pint, and write in depth about the Sierra wilderness. http://www.rain.org/campinternet/backcountry/railroads/turn-century.html
Do an art project to tie a hands on to the online history unit.
Southwest now moves to meet the Hopi and Acoma online and learns about their lives today and their art and culture. See how the Anasazi live on in the pueblos. Hopi http://www.rain.org/campinternet/southwest/hopi/ Acoma http://www.rain.org/campinternet/southwest/acoma.html
Do an art project to tie a hands on to the online LIVING history unit.
New Garden Spring Equinox Studies
Gardens are planning their gardens, sprouting seeds, and preparing their soil
Goto: http://www.rain.org/global-garden
Create your own garden, in a pot, on a window sill, in your yard ... give back a gift of Spring celebration to the Earth.
Enjoy your Spring Break!
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